MS sufferer Mandy Cordingley was left with serious spinal injuries after a road rage driver deliberately mowed her down in the middle of a road

Mandy got out to swap details but Poole drove her Corsa at the healthcare assistant, forcing her to cling on to the bonnet.

Poole was convicted of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. She got a suspended jail term and a three-year ban at Manchester crown court.

Mandy, 53, who needed a neck brace after the incident in Oldham, said: “She was so crazy.”

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Lesley Poole carried out the attack after she and Poole had a minor collision, but will not serve time in jail for the crime

In a 999 call made to police by a witness, Mandy, also a mother of two, was heard shouting: “She's trying to run me over in the middle of the road. She's actually trying to run me over.

“She's going to try and run me over again but I'm not moving. She's just hit my bloody arm now, my arm is killing me.

“She drove the car and purposely hit me, she did it about five times and on the sixth she hit me. I was trying to stop her on the road.”

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Mandy has had to wear a neck brace to help her recover from the incident

Senior healthcare assistant Mandy was taken to North Manchester General Hospital where she was found to have a fracture in the vertebrae of her spine. She had to wear a brace to protect her spine and was forced to have four months off work.

Details of the incident on December 16 last year emerged at Manchester magistrates court where Poole was found guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a trial in which the victim gave evidence from behind a screen.

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Mum-of-two Mandy was forced to take months off work after the horrifying incident when Poole deliberately drove her car at her six times

After the case Mandy said: “I had only got out of my car to get her details but she revved the engine and I hung on to the bonnet because I was terrified.

“I thought if I let go I was going to go under, I was holding on for my life. I remember thinking 'I can't die'. She was revving the engine and smirking, that's what keeps coming to me at night.

“She was trying to run me over. She was so crazy. I thought I was going to die.

“I can’t sleep ever since it happened. All I can hear is the revving of the engine.”

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Mandy has struggled to sleep for the memory of the attack and has to wear a restrictive neck brace to help heal her spinal injury

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District Judge Khalid Qureshi told Poole: “You say you're remorseful but you showed no remorse, or else this wouldn't have gone to trial and you wouldn't have behaved the way you did.

“You bumped into this lady and then you escalated the whole scenario yourself. This was a vulnerable woman who was stood out of her car in a busy road. You hit her and then you drove off. I don't have enough powers to sentence you in this court.”

He sent her to Crown court, where the suspended sentence and driving ban were handed out.